STALK MARKET: Vegetable traders try barter to tackle food security issue

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BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya—Traders in T-shirts here engage in the “stalk” market using something that lands on people’s plates or trash bins: herbaceous plants like carrots and cabbages. And by doing so, they may be helping the province, even the country, attain food security.

BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya—Traders in T-shirts here engage in the “stalk” market using something that lands on people’s plates or trash bins: herbaceous plants like carrots and cabbages.One of these traders is Evangeline Ordonia, who sits, almost daily, behind a worn-out and scratched wooden desk inside one of the busiest agricultural trading posts in the country: the Nueva Vizcaya Agricultural Terminal .

A Rise Against Hunger Philippines staff member sorts plastic bags for repacking produce inside the organization’s warehouse. ADA PELONIAA study commissioned by the Global FoodBanking Network revealed that of the estimated 500,000 kilos of fruits and vegetables brought to the NVAT every day, about half goes to waste with much of it dumped by the wayside.

The RAHP spearheaded the first food bank in the country in 2019, recognized by the GFBN which they are a member of. As muscle-toned men carry red crates filled with produce to and from her stall inside the NVAT, Ordonia said she would bring to the food bank sweet potato, squash or sayote she considered as surplus.

“But the target is to be able to rescue that much,” he said adding one of the reasons for this is anchored on RAHP’s capacity. According to NVAT General Manager Gilbert L. Cumila, the factory would be processing lemons, pineapples and tomatoes into juice in their bid to reduce food waste.

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